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Wow, I have my own thread. Whoever put all these random things together, thanks =)

So now that I have my new member of my family (06 Porsche 911 Carrera S) I have been working on selling some of the mods I have done on the Accord to raise some cash to do some things I want to do to the Porsche. After spending a week with the Porsche, I have come to realize that I am very glad I decided to keep the Accord too. The whole plan was for the Accord to become a daily driver and there is no way I would drive the Porsche daily. It is so low to the ground, I just can't imagine how destroyed the car would get from daily driving. Just getting it out of the driveway is a chore. Don't get me wrong, I am certainly not complaining. I love it. It is fast, very fast and the suspension and handling is just outstanding. I have never enjoyed a car as much as this.

That leaves me to what to keep and what to get rid of on the Accord. Ultimately, I love how it looks and sits, so the wheels, suspension, rotors, brakes, intake, exhaust and of course all the engine detailing stays. That means that there is not much to get rid of, which is good news. I am selling the carputer and the PLX ODB gauge. Outside of that, everything else stays as is for now. I still love my Accord. I did not want it to feel neglected, so I detailed the crap out of it today. Washed, waxed, vacuumed, etc.

That being said, when I had my Altima, I was a big member of an Altima forum. When it went away, I went away from the forum after a period of time. Now that I have the Porsche, I have found some great online forums as well, but I am planning on staying with ONE Accord forum and that is here. I might check out V6P from time to time, but other then that, you guys are like family and enjoy talking with you guys. So I might come on here from time to time and talk about the Honda, but also talk about the Porsche. Hope you guys won't mind.

Nice Scott.  I'm glad you're keeping the stance and sound of your car.  I'll make sure to give you a kick in the pants if you disappear from here.

good to know your staying. you should post pics of that clean Porsche engine bay if you haven't yet.

Friday night I will post up some pics. The engine bay has only been lightly detailed at this point. I have been so busy getting the outside and inside done, the engine will be last and the hardest to clean. It is so freaking tight and hard to get into.

glad to see your going to stick around the forum...i would baby that porsche so much...it looks like your gonna do it right by starting out with the car cover and garage...i hate to see people not take care of such a beautiful car

I'm happy to see your staying around!!! What kind of Rims are on your car I always wonder?

u win the award for cleanest 7th gen engine bay

sweet looking porsche.....

19" Axis Shine 19x8.5 +45 offset

So with the new 911 in the stable, I am still getting used to driving a car that sits so low. The front is almost as low as Neel's ride, so I can't imagine how beat up underneath his lip must be. Anyway. I came up with a ghetto fabulous way to avoid scratching up the lip on a daily basis. I purchase a 2" wide roll of extra thick, black electrical tape. All weather version. It is easy to contour the tape to the shape of the underside of the lip. With the car being that midnight blue color, even during the daytime, you cannot see the tape and when I am going over bumps and whatnot, it is better the scrap up the tape, then the paint. All I have to do, is spend five minutes to peel off the old tape and put on the new. If you are asking how well it holds up, well so far, so good. It has only been a few days and the sticky left over cleans up easily.

Try Win, Lose Lean is motto we use at work. Try something new, if it works, awesome, if it does not, you learn from it and move on. There is an old saying about how it took Thomas Edison more then 2,000 tries to make a lightbulb. Someone asked him at one point, how frustrating it must have been to fail 2,000 times before he made a working version, to which he replied it was actually a good thing, because he learned 2,000 ways not to make a lightbulb. Perspective is a gift.

thats an awesome motto

Yes, another post about the Carrera. So tonight in my never ending pursuit of no dust or dirt, I was cleaning underneath the dash and found a coiled up wire that had an accessory end on it (cigarette lighter connector) and the coiled cable goes into the firewall about the middle of the dash and does not come out anywhere else. I have no idea what it is and definitely not something from the factory. I cannot pull it out and it is stuck in there, but a pretty long cable. I am thinking it might be an old radar detector power cable, but it was wired into the dash or something.

So for now, I have this mystery on my hands, as I have no ideas wtf it is. I am taking the car to the dealership on Tuesday for some warranty work, I will ask them then.

that’s a very good and safe assumption.

plug something in and see if it powers on...

I tried that, nothing. I am thinking it is the previous owners radar detector power cable, who the hell knows.

Saw Alex down there selling his HID kits. Show was completely outside, including stunt bike and drift competition. Never saw the bikes doing anything, but watched most of the drift competition. Watch 10 cars get reduced down to about 6 after 1 blew a motor (rotory RX7) and 3 crash out to the point they could not drive them any longer. Two were Nissan 240's and one was a Nissan 350z. The 350 did some major damage to the front end after it slammed itself head on into one of the barricades. Another 350 lost it in one of the turns and slammed the rear end. He came back to the pit area and basically removed his entire rear bumper, support, etc so he could continue. I personally think the guy in the primer gray old school Toyota had the most control and did the best.

Anyway, it was fun to watch and got a lot of it on video. The cars at Tampa were alright. Seriously, not many that I was like blown away by. I could seriously enter in my Accord and have the cleanest engine bay there. I might not have 18 video screens and everything wrapped in carbon fiber, but I feel that my car is done simple and elegant compared to some of the riced out cars there. Some cars were there dirty and with dents and rips in the interior. I was really surprised how poorly some of the cars represented at the event.

It was pretty big, but I feel like I way over paid for entrance to what was just an okay time. $3 for bottle water, $4 for soda, $6 for lemonade. You'd think they already raped you on the entrance they would give a little on the refreshment pricing.

Whatever, it is not like you get a chance to go to these events all the time. I am still glad I went. Pictures to come tomorrow.

HIN Sucks!!!

Now you people know why I don't go to car shows :)

Not knocking on you for going, Scott, but I refuse to pay any money to see rice.  For every well done car at a car show, there are 10,000 RICERS vying for that def jam gangsta spot.  I don't pay money to see that crap because I can see it for free at the Tuesday night meets I attend on occasion.  I kinda wish they made giant poison traps for ricers like those ant baiters....the ricers enter, get some super cool work done on their cars, they go home, and then the next morning their cars are mysteriously DEAD.

At least you got to see some drifting and a little bit of carnage.  I went to HIN a few years ago and was also underwhelmed.  My car is in pretty poor shape right now, but I'm sure I could win some BS trophy if I entered my car.  I agree that the quality of the cars there are not really "show" quality.

The cars.  Ahhh!!!
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/ibcnunv/HIN%202008/DSC02238.jpg)
The girls; totally wroth it!!!
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/ibcnunv/HIN%202008/DSC02195.jpg)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/ibcnunv/HIN%202008/DSC02244.jpg)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/ibcnunv/HIN%202008/DSC02247.jpg)

piero i dig your photo skills. Great, Ermm...shots.

ghostbusters, haha thats great

pics are here: http://gallery.me.com/srudowitz#100052 (http://gallery.me.com/srudowitz#100052)

Wow:
(http://gallery.me.com/srudowitz/100052/IMG_2040/web.jpg?ver=12408745720001)

WTF?
(http://gallery.me.com/srudowitz/100052/IMG_2070/web.jpg?ver=12408746520001)

no pics of my ride  :wink:

The black S2K with the ITB's and the dupont flat black style 350Z were cool....everything else made me want to vomit....including that white 7th gen...Christ what a monstrosity....

 :lol:  i knew someone was going to say something about that car, i personally know the owner and he thinks his accord is the best  

Cool pics Scott.  It's about what I expected to see at a show like that.  Too flashy for my taste.  I have to agree about the Accord, it's been molested.  I did like that S2K with the ITB's though.

The pictures of the cops were after two idiots were street racing right by the event. What a bunch of morons. There were like 8 cops that started chasing them... LOL

Yeah it's pretty f*ckin dumb to start street racing outside of a car show...some of these idiots should seriously be presented with Darwin awards...

Well aside from the cars, the bimbos look good. LOL.

Any update on that cable?

Nice upgrade.

That's really the only reason why I would go.

Hmmmm.  That's pretty interesting.  I'd take the dash apart and find out.

Actually, I found out what it was, MYSTERY SOLVED! Evidently the previous owner had installed and some how got it all tangled up, an extension cable for the battery maintainer. So it turn out to just be the left over extension accessory cable. Good thing is that I wound up needing it for the same purpose and am actually using it now. Go figure!

Battery Maintainer = for cars that get driven rarely/garage queens, just drive it, problem solved, hahaha (just busting balls)

^ or for cars that are garaged only in the winter time ;)

my initial instinct was radar detector, but that makes total sense

Yeah that too, but he lives in FL, they don't get "Winter" LOL

Don't let your girl hear you say that Tim.

got more pics of this accord?
(http://gallery.me.com/srudowitz/100052/IMG_2040/web.jpg?ver=12408745720001)

She'd tease me about it anyway.  Those shows are really only a reason for guys like us to look at slutty girls.  If I wanted to go to a real car show, I'd go to Autorama.

+1

Scott posted a link to his gallery that has more pics of that white accord.

http://gallery.me.com/srudowitz#100052 (http://gallery.me.com/srudowitz#100052)

She sounds like a lovely girl Tim, lucky guy you. LOL.

Yesterday I decided to drive the new car (yes the Porsche) to work as my old boss was in town and of course I wanted him to see the new ride. I normally do not drive it to work as it was never meant to be a daily driven car, more of my weekend and fun car. I still kept the Honda for the daily routine.

Anyway, on the way home, something, probably a rock, flew up and hit the windshield, cracking it on the passenger side. No big deal, I have had that happen before in a car, but still kind of sucked.

No less then a 1/2 mile later, the car in front of me kicks up something, I think a piece of wood and it hits the front of the car, putting a dent in the bumper and cracking the lower Techart front chin spoiler, causing it to crack away from the bumper. Whatever it was rolls under the car and then hits the side skirt and while it does not really damage it, it does cause it to come loose from the side of the car. Frustrated is not even the word.

So now I have an appointment on Monday to take it into a Body shop to get an estimate for insurance, Tuesday morning they are going to come and fix the windshield and then hopefully I will be able to get the estimate approved and parts ordered, to take the car back down to the body shop to do the work. UGH!

Sorry to hear about this Scott! Hopefully it will all get cleaned up quick for you.

Keep your head up.. I don't wish that upon my worst enemy.. especially your new toy..

geeeez already!   i can only imagine how you feel

Yea i get days like that too but better days will come and your car will be fix soon

Aww man.  That really sucks Scott.  I'm sorry to hear about your bad day.

Oh wow, that sucks , the one day u decide to take it to work....did that ever happen to the accord?

damn thats tough to hear man. hopefully getting it back together wont be as bad.

that sucks, but that's what full coverage is for

In 5 years of owning the Accord, I have had all sorts of things happen. One day driving down the road, the side window just shattered. Thank goodness it was tinted, it was all that held it together. I was rear-ended at least three times, twice while in the car and never did it really damage anything. Only other thing I ever really had happen was driving down the road, about 75 and a car in front of my swerved to miss something in the road and kicked up a construction cone that smacked across the front of the car, scratching the OEM front lip and bending it away from the car. Some 3M tape and I was back to good in that case though.

this sucks. well you learned your lesson not to drive it as DD but then again, it could have happaned on weekends too

Sorry to hear about your car Scott. It was also no fun reading about how your accord has been beat up before too. Maybe you just have bad luck right now.

Yeah that's absolutely terrible :(... It had to happen on the day you were driving the Porsche too :/

I'm sorry to hear about your misfortune Scott...thankfully the windshield will be covered under Florida no fault....I don't want to see the estimate you get....I can only imagine what it's going to be like...

You'll have your baby back to shape in no time buddy!

And at least it wasn't in the accord...need I bring up the "sonic the hedgehog" analogy?

Dam Scott sorry to hear this bro.  I hope everything gets taken care of soon.

Thanks for always keeping us posted with updates they are aways great reads.

"not this one"

Well the good news in all of this is that most likely when they fix the front bumper and spoiler, they will NOT mold it this time. I think this a big part of why the damage is so extensive. My guess is that they will need to replace the entire front bumper cover and order a new lower tech art spoiler. I think the side spoiler is okay and just needs to be adjusted and reattached.

The better news is that I found an EXCELLENT shop to do all the work, called Daya's. They only work on high end cars, like BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Ferrari, etc. Also they referred me to the glass company, so I feel better about who will be doing the work now.

Skip - yes, you can always bring up that analogy. I fucking love it! Makes me smile every time!

One day I will get off my lazy butt and MS-Paint a picture for it...it will be of awesome proportions..and there will be much rejoicing.

Just got back from Daya's. Cost of repair is a little north of $2,000. I did ask them if they rather then fixing the bumper and Techart spoiler, if they would be able to replace it with the Factory Aero (like GT3) bumper. They are going to look into doing that instead. I think it would be a little bit higher then the Techart and give me ever so slightly more clearance in the front. They did not promise anything, only they would see if they could get the price to be the same. At this point, they are actually quoting that to State Farm, so lets see what happens.

The windshield replacement company just left. They started at 9:15 and it took a little under three hours to complete. Granted we were talking and so I am sure I slowed him down some. He did not seem to mind. The guys who did the install (Sanders Auto Glass) is the owner/installer. He specialized in high end cars, although also does work for Nissan, Toyota, etc.

Anyway, I am amazing that so much stuff needs to be taken off the car to get the windshield out. I would have never really thought about it, until now.

The pillar covers, all the plastic fascia from the top of the trunk area, wipers, rain sensor, rearview mirror, clips and so forth. He did a good job making sure to be as careful as possible and was very understanding when I asked him to NOT clean up after himself. I explained, no offense, but I would much rather use my towels and cleaners. He was very understanding about it.

I have never needed to have a windshield replaced before where I was able to watch it being done, so it was very informative and very interesting to watch how it all takes place. I think the two most worrisome moments were when he started to screw in the two bottom windshield holding brackets that the factory does not leave in the car and then when he busted out a the big sawzall tool that was modified with a spatular looking end to break free the bottom part of the window. Otherwise, it seemed par for the course. I really hope to never need this done again in the future. It was painful enough watching it this time around. Lets hope that everything cures correctly and that no leaks or whistling noises comes from the replacement. Alright, well first part done, up next I hope that I will be taking it into the body shop. I hope they call me today with an update.